Establishing the design knowledge for emerging interaction platforms
Lee, HyowonORCID: 0000-0003-4395-7702 and Smeaton, Alan F.ORCID: 0000-0003-1028-8389
(2011)
Establishing the design knowledge for emerging interaction platforms.
In: 4th World Conference on Design Research (IASDR 2011), 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2011, Delft, The Netherlands.
While awaiting a variety of innovative interactive products and services to appear in the market in the near future such as interactive tabletops, interactive TVs, public multi-touch walls, and other embedded appliances, this paper calls for preparation for the arrival of such interactive platforms based on their interactivity. We advocate studying, understanding and establishing the foundation for interaction characteristics and affordances and design implications for these platforms which we know will soon emerge and penetrate our everyday lives. We review some of the archetypal interaction platform categories of the future and highlight the current status of the design knowledge-base accumulated to date and the current rate of growth for each of these. We use example designs illustrating design issues and considerations based on the authors’ 12-year experience in pioneering novel applications in various forms and styles.